Research Study:

Research Study:

1. First step: select a topic (study of matter) and describe it.

   • The tittle can become a guide for the writer (“be brief and avoid wasting words”)
     • Single Title
     • Doble Title
   • A topic should be researched if
     • “If the topic adds the pool of research knowledge available on the topic.
     • Replicates past studies
     • Lifts up the voices of underrepresented groups (..)
     • Helps address social justice
     • Is of others people interest”
     • Transforms the ideas and beliefs of the researcher

2. Literature Review

   • fills gaps and extends prior studies. Gives a framework for the importance of the study and the opportunity to compare with other studies´ results.
   • Steps
     • 1. Key words
     • 2. Go to a library and search on the catalogue based on those key words
     • 3. Identify 50 reports of research
     • 4. Skim the articles and conclude if they are useful or not
     • 5. Create a literature map
     • 6. Draft summaries of the most relevant articles
     • 7. Add it and create your literature review

3. Searching computer data bases

   • 1. Use free online data bases and also your academic library
   • 2. Search many databases
   • 3. Locate an article that is close to your topic, then look at the terms used to describe it, and use these terms in your search.
   • 4. Databases that have full access to the texts

4. Selecting literature material

   • 1. Summaries of topic located on journal articles or abstract series
   • 2. National journals in which authors present hypothesis and collect data trying to answer it.
   • 3. Books related
   • 4. Recent conference papers
   • 5. Dissertation abstracts The web

5. Abstract: brief review of the article or any literature

   • 1. Mention the problem being addressed
   • 2. State the central purpose or focus of the study
   • 3. Briefly stat information about the sample, population or subjects
   • 4. Review key results that relate to the proposed study
   • 5. If it is a methodological review, point out technical and methodological flaws in the study
   • 6. Non research studies
   • 7. Mention the problem being addressed
   • 8. Identify the central theme of the study
   • 9. State the major conclusions related to this theme
   • 10. If the review type is methodological, mention flaws in reasoning, logic, force of argument, and so forth

6. Literature review helps to determine whether the topic is worth studying” and how can the researcher limit the approach and the field of investigation

7. Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Los Angeles, CA: Sage